What's On
We are a world-class cultural hub in the North West and regularly host some of the best touring artists and productions in the UK
Highlights
MINT Chinese Film Festival
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To purchase a Festival pass click HERE MINT Chinese Film Festival (MINT CFF) “薄荷紫华语电影节” is an award-winning film festival and leading curatorial organisation founded by Chinese...
Once Upon a Time…
Sugar Store & Foyer Gallery | Tue-Sat, 11am-7pm | Free Youth Arts Exhibition ‘Once Upon a Time…’ is a celebration and showcase of the artwork...
Print Room Members Sessions
11am-3pm | 18+ yrs Brewery Arts Print Room Membership allows experienced printmakers the opportunity to work in a safe, relaxed, and creative Print Room environment....
Avatar: Fire and Ash
(12A) 197MINS
With “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” James Cameron takes audiences back to Pandora in an immersive new adventure with Marine turned Na’vi leader Jake Sully (Sam...
Song Sung Blue
(12A) 133MINS
Based on a true story, two down-on-their-luck musicians (Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson) form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it's never too late...
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(18) 111MINS
Expanding upon the world created by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland in 28 Years Later -- but turning that world on its head -- Nia...
Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases
(PG) 86MINS
This programme features a selection of three episodes: ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’, wherein Holmes falls for ‘the woman’; ‘The Golden Pince-Nez’, which features Holmes’ deductive...
Darkroom Access
6.30-9.30pm | 18+ yrs A Brewery Arts Darkroom Membership allows experienced and professional photographers the opportunity to work in a safe, relaxed, and creative Darkroom...
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
(12A) 180MINS
Hamlet by William Shakespeare directed by Robert Hastie Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous...
H is For Hawk
(12A) 116MINS
H is for Hawk follows Helen (Claire Foy), who, after the sudden death of her father (Brendan Gleeson), loses herself in the memories of their...
Marty Supreme
(15) 149MINS
A hustler-turned-champion ping pong player Marty Reisman’s journey from playing for bets in Manhattan to winning 22 major titles and becoming the oldest to win...
Comedy Club
Brewery Arts Members 2 for 1* | Malt Room Cabaret Seating | Age guidance 18+ Comedy Club is our ever-popular and ever-hilarious night featuring some...
Zootropolis 2
(PG) 100MINS
In Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Zootopia 2," detectives Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman) find themselves on the...
National Theatre Live: The Fifth Step
(15) 87MINS
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively...
The Housemaid
(15) 132MINS
The Housemaid is a wildly entertaining thriller starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, based on the best-selling book. From director Paul Feig, the film plunges...
Mature Movers
Tue 13 Jan-24 Mar (10 wks) | 11.30am-12.30pm | 18+ yrs Mature Movers is an open dance class for all abilities, aimed at over 60s....
Art Explorers
Tue 13 Jan-24 Mar (10 wks) | 1-2.30pm | 7+ yrs Art Explorers is a creative and sociable mixed media arts class for young people...
Act Your Age
Tue 13 Jan-24 Mar (10 wks) | 1-3pm | 18+ yrs Act Your Age are currently working towards a performance of The Outrun by Stef...
Get Moving
Wed 14 Jan- 25 Mar (10 wks) | 6.45-7.45pm | 18+ yrs An open adult dance class for all abilities. The class will explore moving...
The Fastest Bicycle +Director Q&A
(15) 129MINS
The story of a London team’s mission to 'go fast' and their journey to the 'World Human Powered Speed Challenge' on Route 305, Battle Mountain,...
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Caravaggio: Exhibition on Screen
(PG) 90MINS
Mystery, intrigue, beauty, passion, murder... Join us as we unravel the story of one of history’s most brilliant, complex and controversial figures. Shine a new...
Warren Miller’s Sno-Ciety
(12A) 100MINS
Bring on winter with Warren Miller! From big mountain lines and race gates to urban ski hills and unexpected destinations, come along as we carve...
Sentimental Value
(15) 133MINS
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he...
Rental Family
(12A) 110MINS
Set in modern-day Tokyo, RENTAL FAMILY follows an American actor (Brendan Fraser) who struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for...
The Luke Combs Experience
Malt Room Standing After a sell-out show last year, join us for an unforgettable evening filled with amazing music and good vibes as we welcome...
Labyrinth – 40th Anniversary
(PG) 101MINS
Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah (Jennifer Connelly), a teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby stepbrother...
Social Cine-Club
(18)
Social Cine-Club is a once-a-month evening for film-lovers to get together. Each month, three films are chosen under a theme, then voted on by the...
Kendal Mountain Tour 2026: Live Speaker And Adventure Films
Standard Theatre Seated Kendal Mountain Events returns for another season of adventure and human connection. Experience the best of the world’s stunning landscapes through a...
R.E.M. X Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr.
(12A) 77MINS
Buster Keaton’s 1924 comedy classic is reimagined with R.E.M. 's alt-rock masterpieces Monster (1994) and New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996). In this sublime comedy teetering...
My Life with Kenneth Williams
Standard Theatre Seated David Benson burst onto the theatre scene in 1996, taking the Edinburgh Fringe by storm with Think No Evil Of Us: My...
Painting Figures in Watercolour
11.30-5pm | 16+ yrs Learn to paint figures in watercolour in a free and fresh way. From drawing out to mixing and applying colour, you...
Ghost Killer
(15) 104MINS
University student MATSUOKA Fumika (TAKAISHI Akari) drunkenly trips in the street after an unsuccessful date. Pulling herself up, she notices a bullet casing lying on...
Fires and Fascism +Director Q&A
(12A) 57MINS
Fires and Fascism is a new documentary showing the wildfires in Europe are more than just climate change and mismanagement. It links the growing wildfires...
Woolf Works – The Royal Ballet
(12A) 210MINS
Virginia Woolf defied literary conventions to depict rich inner worlds – her heightened, startling and poignant reality. Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor leads a luminous artistic...
Niall McCabe
Malt Room Cabaret Seating With self-effacing humour and stories told of growing up on a remote Irish island, Niall McCabe possesses an effortless charm which...
What Should We Have Done?
(15) 101MINS
In 1983, at the age of 24, director FUJINO Tomoaki’s older sister Masako, a kind and caring person, began showing symptoms of schizophrenia. Having excelled...
Wuthering Heights
(15) 140MINS
A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors. Tragedy strikes when Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine Earnshaw, a...
Held In Nature: Family Watercolour Workshop
11.15am-12.45pm | 5+ yrs | 1 adult to 2 young people maximum Develop your drawing and painting skills with Artist Lela Harris in this fun,...
Held in Ink: Adult Workshop
1.30-5.30pm | 16+ Develop your drawing and painting skills with Lela Harris, in this nature inspired ink collage workshop. By the end of the workshop,...
Martin Carthy & Eliza Carthy
Standard Theatre Seated Due to high demand, we are releasing additional tickets for this event on 22 January. Please contact our box office to be...
Pete Firman: Tricks & Giggles
Standard Theatre Seated | Age Strictly 11+ With over 4.5 million social media followers and countless TV appearances under his belt, Pete Firman is the...
The Final Piece
(15) 123MINS
Deep in the mountains, a skeletal corpse is unearthed — the only clue to its identity, a single handcrafted shogi piece from one of only...
A Thousand Words +Director Q&A
(12A) 90MINS
Join us for a live Q&A with Directors Dom Bush & Matt Sharman From the dusty archives of the Alpine Club to the heart of...
Introduction To Stained Glass
12-4pm | 16+ yrs Introduction to Stained Glass is designed to teach all the basic skills in order to make a small stained glass panel....
Tetra Pak Printing
12-4pm | 16+ yrs Drypoint is a traditional technique used to engrave and scratch into a surface to create an Intaglio plate without using acids...
Ashley Campbell ‘the Goodnight Nashville Tour’
Extended Theatre Seated Due to popular demand we have released extra seating for this performance. When purchasing a ticket, please click through both of the...
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
(15) 106MINS
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil, Janis: Little Girl Blue and West of Memphis), covers the...
Brewery Youth Film Crew
4.30-6pm | 11+ yrs Open for sign-ups throughout the term. If the start date has passed, bookings may still be available, please contact the box...
Introduction to Acrylics
Wed 25 Feb-25 Mar (5wks) | 7-9pm | 16+ yrs Open for sign-ups throughout the term. If the start date has passed, bookings may still...
Mini Movers (0-4yrs)
Thu 15 Jan-26 Mar (10wks) | 11.30am-12.30pm Open for sign-ups throughout the term. If the start date has passed, bookings may still be available, please...
Build a Bird: Mixed Media Kinetic Sculpture
Thu 26 Feb-26 Mar (5wks) | 1-3pm | 16 + yrs Design and create a kinetic bird sculpture while exploring diverse modelling techniques, experimenting with...
3000 Feet +Director Q&A
(12A) 95MINS
3,000 Feet is the untold story of Hugh Munro, the man whose name has become synonymous with Scotland's highest mountains. Scottish mountaineering originated in the...
National Theatre Live: The Audience
(12A) 180MINS
Returning to cinemas for the first time in over a decade, Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the Olivier and Tony Award® -winning hit...
Mark Simmons – Jest To Impress
Standard Theatre Seated | Age guidance 14+ | Plus Support from Danny Ward WINNER Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2024 As seen on Mock...
China Crisis
Malt Room Standing | Age Guidance 16+ The early 1980’s heralded a second Liverpool-based musical renaissance and amongst these lauded Merseyside acts was China Crisis,...
Portrait in Oils
11.30-5pm | 16yrs + Learn the basics of oil painting a portrait, from using equipment to handling the paint, representing tonal values to mixing and...
ANGRY SQUAD: The Civil Servant and the Seven Swindlers
(15) 120MINS
Straight-laced tax office employee KUMAZAWA Jiro (UCHINO Seiyo) falls victim to the clever scam of genius con artist HIMURO Makoto (OKADA Masaki), losing a large...
Giselle – The Royal Ballet
(12A) 210MINS
The peasant girl Giselle has fallen in love with Albrecht. When she discovers that he is actually a nobleman promised to another, she kills herself...
Jordan Gray: Is That A C*ck In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Here To Kill Me?
Standard Theatre Seated Following acclaimed runs in London and Edinburgh, the multi-award-winning star and creator of ITV’s Transaction, Jordan Gray, hits the road with a...
A Foreigners Journey
Malt Room Standing Legendary bands Foreigner and Journey are giants of the AOR (Adult Orientated Rock) and classic rock genres, attracting huge audiences as live...
Introduction to Clay
12-4pm | 16+ yrs Have you wanted to give our incredible clay courses a go but you’re not sure if it’s for you? Join our...
Chesney Hawkes
Malt Room Standing | Plus Support from Laura Ashton Chesney Hawkes became one of the biggest pop stars of his era with his irresistible mega-hit...
Brewery Arts Open Exhibition 2026 – Open to Submissions!
Sugar Store & Foyer Gallery | Tue-Sat, 11am-5pm | Free Open to submissions! Our annual Brewery Arts Open Exhibition showcases the talent of local artists,...
Turner & Constable: Exhibition on Screen
(PG) 90MINS
Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, both used...
Brewery Poets Reading – March 2026
Warehouse Seated The Brewery Poets return for a reading with a difference. Brewery Poet member Ilse Pedler has been involved in a year long immersion...
The Man Who Failed to Die
(15) 109MINS
Comedy sketch writer SEKIYA Ippei (MIZUKAWA Katamari), weary of society’s harshness and a life without reward, decides to end it all by jumping from a...
Become the Camera: Cameraless Photography and The Magic of the Darkroom
11.15am-4.30pm | 10+ with a responsible adult Step into the Darkroom and discover the magic of making images without a camera! Create your own photograms...
Hakkenden: Fiction and Reality
(15) 149MINS
In early 19th-century Edo, celebrated novelist Takizawa Bakin (Koji Yakusho) embarks on an ambitious story of eight samurai warriors. They are bound by a mystical...
McGoldrick, McCusker & Doyle
Extended Theatre Seated "A sparklingly tight programme... an excellent sound balance... never tiresome." The Scotsman "It takes a lifetime of playing to sound as effortless...
NEMURUBAKA: Hypnic Jerks
(15) 106MINS
IRISU Yumi (KUBO Shiori), a university student who lacks direction in life, shares a room with her senior, KUJIRAI Ruka (TAIRA Yuna), a devoted musician...
Line Hatching with Hideyuki Sobue
1-5pm | 18+ Try-out session to learn Hideyuki’s original line hatching method and create a piece of work inspired by the natural surroundings at Brewery...
Tristan und Isolde: The Met Opera
(12A)
After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives in cinemas worldwide - Tristan und Isolde. As the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the...
Huey Morgan – The Fun Lovin’ Criminal: An Evening Of Music And Conversation
Theatre You may have encountered the dynamic personality of Huey Morgan in many ways. Frontman, radio and television broadcaster, author and DJ, Huey is many...
Stained Glass Flowers
12-4pm |18+ yrs Students will be shown how to cut glass safely and will cut out flowers from coloured glass, wrap adhesive copper foil around...
Alternative Darkroom Processes
12-4pm | 16+ yrs Explore non-standard analogue photo printing techniques in this hands-on workshop, covering photograms, Cliché Verre, chemigrams, solarisation and double-exposure printing. Perfect for...
The Last Blossom
(12A) 90MINS
AKUTSU Minoru (KOBAYASHI Kaoru present self, TOZUKA Junki past self), serving a life sentence, awaits a lonely death in his prison cell. The only real...
Siegfried – The Royal Opera
(12A) 330MINS
Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey. Soon, destiny brings him face-to-face...
Olaf Falafel
Standard Theatre Seated OLAF FALAFEL’S STUPIDEST SUPER STUPID SHOW Winner of the Best Kids’ Show at the 2024 Leicester Comedy Festival After a sell out...
Manu Delago & Max ZT
Standard Theatre Seated Grammy-nominated innovators Manu Delago (handpan) and Max ZT (hammered dulcimer) come together in a bold new duo that reimagines the sonic possibilities...
Mishra Ft. Deepa Shakthi
Standard Theatre Seated In 2022, Danny Kyle award-winning global folk band Mishra began a new cross-cultural collaboration with international fusion vocalist Deepa Shakthi. The resulting...
Kris Drever
Malt Room Standing Kris Drever is among Scotland’s most acclaimed and distinctive contemporary musicians, celebrated for his warm voice, virtuosically expressive guitar playing and imaginative...
ABBA Reunion
Malt Room Standing The ABBA REUNION tribute Show is the creation of an Award Winning West End Director, Producer and Choreographer Starring the original ‘Frida’...
BA Introducing… Maya Kally
Malt Room Cabaret Seating | Plus Support from Clara Pople 20% student discount! Just select ‘student’ when booking (ID required on the night) Maya Kally is...
Evgenij Onegin: Tchaikovsky – Teatro Alla Scala
(12A) 155MINS
Teatro alla Scala presents a new production of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece drawn from Pushkin’s novel in verse. Its debut in 1879 marked a turning point in...
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
(15) 130MINS
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary director...
Jane Weaver: ‘The Fallen By Watchbird’ 15th Anniversary Tour
Extended Theatre Seated | On sale 10am 21 Nov Jane Weaver’s illustrious career has produced an expansive library of music that has seen her journey...
Dub Pistols
Malt Room Standing How many bands have the career longevity to release ten albums? They might have been perilously close to falling apart on various...
The Magic Flute – The Royal Opera
(12A) 210MINS
Princess Pamina has been captured. Her mother, the Queen of the Night, tasks the young Prince Tamino with her daughter’s rescue. But when Tamino and...
Butler, Blake & Grant
Standard Theatre Seated Bernard Butler, Norman Blake and James Grant are three established and respected musicians. Norman, a centrifugal force in Teenage Fanclub, Bernard, renowned for...
Legends Of American Country Show
Standard Theatre Seated Now seen by over 350,000 fans live and watched by millions on TV, Europe’s No.1 multi-award-winning show "The Legends of American Country"...
LOVE With Johnny Echols
Malt Room Standing LOVE with Johnny Echols sees Arthur Lee’s longest-serving band head to Brewery Arts, performing the classic songs from Love’s first three albums...
John Jones Trio
Standard Theatre Seated John Jones is best known as the powerful and charismatic singer with Oysterband, veterans of the folk and roots scene since the...
Simon Yates of Touching the Void: Pleasure and Pain
Extended Theatre Seated Simon Yates of Touching the Void returns to Brewery Arts, Kendal, with his new talk ‘Pleasure and Pain’ due to phenomenal demand!...
Lady Maisery
Standard Theatre Seated The combined vocal and multi-instrumental talents of Rowan Rheingans, Hazel Askew and Hannah James make up the uniquely captivating band Lady Maisery...
Eugene Onegin: The Met Opera
(12A) 245MINS
Soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana in Eugene Onegin. This is following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. The...
Harry Baker: Tender
Standard Theatre Seated As in ripe for the taking. As in a heart swelled to twice its size. As in soft. As in delicious. As...
Cosi Fan Tutte: Mozart – Teatro Alla Scala
(12A) 178MINS
Prepare to be enthralled by the brilliance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Così fan tutte, a masterful exploration of love, fidelity, and human folly, presented on...
Session A9
Standard Theatre Seated Over the last 25 years, Session A9 have earned their reputation as one of the best live bands in the country, adored...
Barbara Dickson
Standard Theatre Seated In this special semi-acoustic performance, Barbara Dickson and her pianist Nick Holland explore her catalogue of songs at an intimate level. Barbara...
Tom Stade: Naughty By Nature
Malt Room Seated | Age Guidance 16+ Direct from the Edinburgh festival, and his last smash-hit nationwide tour, the legendary Canadian stand up star is...
Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman
Standard Theatre Seated Nora Brown is the “brightest young star in old-time music” Songlines, playing traditional music focused on southern Appalachian banjo and guitar, with...
El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego: The Met Opera
(12A) 170MINS
On May 30, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s...
Ye Vagabonds
Malt Room Standing The Mac Gloinn brothers – Brian and Diarmuid – first performed in the streets together as buskers and have since evolved into...
Lohengrin: Wagner – Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
(12A) 217MINS
The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, stages Lohengrin, Richard Wagner's epic story set in mediaeval Brabant that explores the conflict between Christian faith and Germanic paganism....
Mark Watson: Before It Overtakes Us
Extended Theatre Seated | Age Guidance 14+ 20 years in stand-up for the 'Taskmaster' cheeky texts icon, multi-award-winner, YouTube cult figure, Radio 4 favourite and...
Very Santana
Extended Theatre Seated Join us for a musical time travel experience, where you can enjoy the beautiful guitar melodies and creatively diverse, challenging songs of...
Lindisfarne
Extended Theatre Seated Legendary 70s folk-rock pioneers Lindisfarne return to form with a classic five-piece line up of long-time members fronted by original founder-member Rod...
Mary Coughlan
Standard Theatre Seated Mary Coughlan is often described as the greatest female vocalist that Ireland has ever produced, standing alongside some of the world’s most iconic...
The Long Ryders
Malt Room Standing The Long Ryders, pioneers of the alt-country movement, return to the stage with the same fiery spirit that first made them legends....
Olga Koch: Fat Tom Cruise
Standard Theatre Seated Olga Koch has one good story. Only it’s not really her story. Do you wanna hear it? In Fat Tom Cruise, see...
Scott Bennett: Blood Sugar Baby
Standard Theatre Seated One family, one condition, one hell of a hairy baby… Scott Bennett from Live at the Apollo, The Royal Variety Performance and...
Hejira – Celebrating Joni Mitchell
Extended Theatre Seated Following a stellar performance in 2025, Hejira return to Brewery Arts. Hejira is an outstanding 7-piece band set up to celebrate and...
The Elves & The Shoemaker!
Standard Theatre Seated | Age 3+ | Presented by Exeter Northcott Theatre and Paddleboat Theatre Company In the nooks and crannies of the old Shoemaker’s shop...
Coming soon
Light – Shape – Distance
Foyer Gallery | Tue-Sat, 11am-7pm | Free Stuart Irving (b. North Shields, Newcastle) is a visual artist living and working in Carlisle. Born into a...
The Voice Of Hind Rajab
(15) 89MINS
Volunteers at the Palestine Red Crescent Society stay on the phone with a 6-year-old girl who gets trapped in a car in war-torn Gaza. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7udC9c6Cfis
No Other Choice
(15) 139MINS
When a man is abruptly laid off by the paper company where he has worked tirelessly for many years, he grows increasingly desperate in his...
It Was Just An Accident
(12A) 104MINS
When an auto mechanic encounters the man who may have been his torturer in prison, he kidnaps him to exact vengeance. But since the sole...
Discover Pottery Throwing
11.15am, 1.30pm or 3.30pm | Sessions are 90mins | 16+ yrs Discover Pottery Throwing is a fun intensive throwing workshop that will concentrate on improving...
Blue Velvet – 40th Anniversary
(18) 121MINS
College student Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) returns home after his father has a stroke. When he discovers a severed ear in an abandoned field, Beaumont...
Is this Thing On?
(15) 121MINS
As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex (Will Arnett) faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while...
Nouvelle Vague
(12A) 106MINS
Richard Linklater recreates the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s seminal feature debut, penning a nostalgic love letter to the rebellious spirit of the French New Wave....
Stone Carving with Danny Clahane
27 Feb-27 Mar (5wks) | 2-4pm | 18+ yrs An introduction to Stone carving in three dimensions, from an initial drawing, maquette or simply an...
The History Of Sound
(15) 128MINS
The History of Sound follows two young men - Lionel (Paul Mescal) and David (Josh O'Connor) - in the shadows of WWI who are determined...
Adventure Motorcycle Film Festival
Standard Theatre Seated The Adventure Motorcycle Film Festival is brought to you by The Trail and Adventure Motorbike Podcast (TAMP) and the Reel Riders podcast....
Lino Cut Botanicals
12-5pm | 18+ yrs Create unique fruit and flower inspired mini lino prints in an afternoon. What will the class cover and how will it...
Slate Carving with Danny Clahane
11.30-5pm | 18+ yrs An introduction to Slate relief carving. Looking at tool use and aspects of working stone to create an image. What will...
Mosaic Art
11.30am-5pm | 18+ Join Helen Clues, Mosaic artist, to create beautiful mosaic pieces using fabulous materials in this workshop. There will be a choice of...